This is Part 5 of the five-part series, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Communication. This course will provide information on current national practice on measuring ACEs. A framework for using national data to inform community-level change will be presented. This course is presented in partnership with the American Board of Child Language and Language Disorders (ABCLLD).

This is Part 4 of the five-part series, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE): The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Communication. This course will focus on the effects of exposure to trauma, including abuse and neglect, on language development. The impact on early brain development will be discussed, as well as the importance of early intervention to prevent increasing difficulties over time.

This is Part 3 of the five-part series, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Communication. This course will describe (1) the effects of adverse childhood experiences on children’s language and social-emotional development, (2) caregiver-child interventions to promote attunement and affect management, and (3) child interventions to promote language for personal narratives and self-regulation. This course is presented in partnership with the American Board of Child Language and Language Disorders (ABCLLD).

This course will discuss the importance of social skill instruction and leisure skill building for students with autism and other complex communication disorders. The focus will be on individuals in 6th grade to adulthood.

This is Part 2 of the five-part series, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE): The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Communication. This course will focus on how children of forced migrant families are often traumatized during the migration process and while settling into a new cultural and linguistic environment. Various scenarios and a conceptual framework for how speech-language pathologists can intervene with these children will be discussed. This course is presented in partnership with the American Board of Child Language and Language Disorders (ABCLLD).

This is Part 1 of the five-part series, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE): The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Communication. This course will provide a brief review of conventional and expanded adverse childhood experiences and discuss their implications. Specifically, the impact of ACEs on brain and behavior and the importance of this information to clinical practice for speech-language pathologists will be described. This course is presented in partnership with the American Board of Child Language and Language Disorders (ABCLLD).

This course will discuss the social thinking difficulties in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that create barriers to academic achievement. It will also describe tools that SLPs can use in collaboration with classroom teachers to help students with ASD overcome these challenges.

This course will introduce modern video-based assessment methods of pragmatic language across six new pragmatics domains (including nonverbal language) that produce a comprehensive pragmatic language profile, and discuss how using these results leads to more accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. Social communication profiles of individuals with various neurodevelopmental disorders will also be reviewed to assist clinicians with differential diagnosis. The course is designed to address the needs of children and young adults, ages 6 to 18.

At a young age, children with communication disorders are at high risk for social punishment from their communicatively typical peers. This course will provide an overview of the emergence of bias in young children, explain the impact of negative attitudes on children with communication disorders, and offer recommendations on how to productively address negative peer attitudes.

SLPs see children with a variety of social-emotional challenges, but anxiety may be the most prevalent. This course will focus on anxiety and its impact on speech/language skills, as well as strategies to decrease anxiety in the children with whom SLPs work.